The motive behind building a website is to sale or market your services. For some, it is a simple marketing strategy while for others it is a deciding criterion for its whole business network.

WordPress is a free and open source content management system (CMS) based on PHP & MYSQL. It was first released in May,2003. It is used by more than 60 million websites,including 33.6% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2019, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use.

WordPress Versions Currently Supported:

Version	Code name	Release date	Notes
3.7	Basie	October 24, 2013	Automatically apply maintenance and security updates in the background, stronger password recommendations, support for automatically installing the right language files and keeping them up to date.
3.8	Parker	December 12, 2013	Improved admin interface, responsive design for mobile devices, new typography using Open Sans, admin color schemes, redesigned theme management interface, simplified main dashboard, “Twenty Fourteen” magazine style default theme, second release using “Plugin-first development process”.
3.9	Smit	April 16, 2014	Improvements to editor for media, live widget and header previews, new theme browser.
4.0	Benny	September 4, 2014	Improved media management, embeds, writing interface, easy language change, theme customizer, plugin discovery and compatibility with PHP 5.5 and MySQL 5.6.
4.1	Dinah	December 18, 2014	Twenty Fifteen as the new default theme, distraction-free writing, easy language switch, Vine embeds and plugin recommendations.
4.2	Powell	April 23, 2015	New “Press This” features, improved characters support, emoji support, improved customizer, new embeds and updated plugin system.
4.3	Billie	August 18, 2015	Focus on mobile experience, better passwords and improved customizer.
4.4	Clifford	December 8, 2015	Introduction of “Twenty Sixteen” theme, and improved responsive images and embeds.
4.5	Coleman	April 12, 2016	Added inline linking, formatting shortcuts, live responsive previews, and other updates under the hood.
4.6	Pepper	August 16, 2016	Added streamlined updates, native fonts, editor improvements with inline link checker and content recovery, and other updates under the hood.
4.7	Vaughan	December 6, 2016	Comes with new default theme “Twenty Seventeen”, Video Header Support, PDF preview, custom CSS in live preview, editor Improvements, and other updates under the hood.
4.8	Evans	June 8, 2017	The next-generation editor. Additional specific goals include the TinyMCE inline element / link boundaries, new media widgets, WYSIWYG in text widget. End Support for Internet Explorer Versions 8, 9, and 10.
4.9	Tipton	November 16, 2017	Improved theme customizer experience, including scheduling, front-end preview links, auto-save revisions, theme browsing, improved menu functions, and syntax highlighting. Added new gallery widget and updated text and video widgets. Theme editor gives warnings and rollbacks when saving files that produce fatal errors.
5.0	Bebo	December 6, 2018	New block based editor Gutenberg with new default theme “Twenty Nineteen”.
5.1	Betty	February 21, 2019	PHP version upgrade notices, and block editor improvements.
5.2	Jaco	May 7, 2019	Include Site Health Check, PHP error protection, the all new block directory, and update package signing.

The versions from 3.7 to 5.1 are the older versions that are still supported and 5.2 is the current stable version.

WordPress Stats :

WordPress powers 33.6% of all the websites on the Internet. Or to put it in another way, WordPress powers over one-third of the web! And if we limit the data set to only websites with a known CMS, WordPress’ market share gets even more dominant.

	% All Websites	% CMS Market
WordPress	33.6	60.5
Joomla	2.9	5.2
Drupal	1.9	3.4

WordPress holds a dominant position over other popular self-hosted content management systems.

WordPress Market Share Stats:

Here are the percentage of the websites powered by WordPress over past 5 years.

2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
21.0%	23.3%	25.6%	27.3%	32.0%	33.6%

As you can see, WordPress has been consistently growing its market share for the past 5 years. And it shows no signs of slowing down.

Benefits of using WordPress:

-User Friendly:
WordPress is very easy to use and has an intuitive interface.  Adding new pages, blog posts, images, etc. on a regular basis is a breeze and can be done quickly.  Because the technology is so simple, time spent on formatting is greatly reduced.

-WordPress Sites rank high:
he code behind WordPress is very clean and simple, making it easy for search engines to read and index a site’s content. In addition, each page, post, and image can have its own meta tag keywords, description, and title, and be optimized for specific keywords, allowing for very precise search engine optimization.

-WordPress is Cost Effective:
Gone are the days when creating a website will cost you much. WordPress designing and development is extremely cost effective. Also, the upkeep and maintenance expense is relatively cheap.

-Responsive Web Design:
With mobile traffic predicted to surpass normal desktop traffic by 2014, responsive web design is no longer an option but a must. When you use a WordPress website design, you automatically get the benefit of responsive web technology.

-Plugins:
Plugins allow you to extend the functionality of your WordPress site without knowing how to program.

-Suitable for Aggressive Content Marketing:
In an era of online marketing when fresh content is of utmost Important, a WordPress theme website has an advantage over the traditional ones. In seconds you can update your site’s content and you can do so as frequent as you want.

Conclusion

Website helps a business to spread over a larger geographical area as it tells people about you all over the world. Website these days is a necessity for a business to grow.

Its always better to keep the things that looks good and also gives you the satisfaction and ease. Therefore its better to develop or get developed your website with a user friendly technology, one among them is WordPress.